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6th Cycle Program 2.8: Support access to rental housing for lower- and moderate-income households, and protect tenants from displacement, through the following programs: 1. Work with the Alameda County Housing Authority and other agencies to maintain funding for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program and other Federal subsidy programs. 2. Inform owners of rental units of the requirement to accept Section 8 Housing Choice certificates/vouchers and/or Project Based Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in their developments. 3. Apply the provisions of the City’s Condominium Conversion Ordinance, and Government Code, §65863.7 (as to mobile homes) to minimize displacement of renters and protect special needs households. For condominium conversions this includes requirements to maintain rental units for households with special needs including those with developmental disabilities, such as lifetime leases with rental caps for persons with disabilities, to the extent permitted by state law; and denying conversion of apartment units to condominiums if the percentage of multi-family units available for rent, city wide, is below 50 percent. 4. Study the development of an enhanced local rental assistance program for the workforce that would help to off- set the costs of market-rate rents for qualifying verylow, low- and moderate-income households, when payment of those rents would result in overpayment or severe overpayment as defined in Appendix A. The City will implement the program unless it is determined it would be financially infeasible, or would negatively affect the City’s ability to fund other housing and human services programs that benefit these same income groups. Although Housing Choice Vouchers are portable and administered by Alameda County Housing Authority, the City’s objective is to continue to have at least 295 Housing Choice Voucher program participants reside in Pleasanton Produce new outreach materials January 2025; apply Condominium Conversion Ordinance (ongoing as applications are received); study development of an enhanced rental assistance program with acceptance of study recommendations by September 2026 with implementation to follow based on action timelines identified in the study 1. Continued to work with the Alameda County Housing Authority and other agencies to maintain funding for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program and other Federal subsidy programs, especially as federal funding for the Section 8 program is being decreased. 2. Continue to collaborate with ECHO Housing to inform owners of rental units of the requirement to accept Section 8 Housing Choice certificates/vouchers and/or Project Based Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in their developments. Collaborate with ECHO Housing to 3. Apply the provisions of the City’s Condominium Conversion Ordinance, and Government Code, §65863.7 (as to mobile homes) to minimize displacement of renters and protect special needs households. For condominium conversions this includes requirements to maintain rental units for households with special needs including those with developmental disabilities, such as lifetime leases with rental caps for persons with disabilities, to the extent permitted by state law; and denying conversion of apartment units to condominiums if the percentage of multi-family units available for rent, city wide, is below 50 percent. 4. City and ECHO Housing, through tenant-landlord education workshops that are held virtually through Zoom, educate tenants and landlords about AB 1482, the California Statewide law that imposes specific rules concerning rent increases and eviction policies for many residential properties in California.